Should Abortion Be Legal?

This topic is also argued in different religions. The Catholic Church believes that abortion is murder and no person born or unborn should be unwillingly killed. Murder is against the Ten Commandments and a serious crime. They believe that abortion is wrong and just as bad as murder. Many Catholic protest abortion by holding protests outside of abortion clinics.

As a catholic-born child, I was brought up with very strict rules laid out before me that would help me with choices such as the holy sacrament of confirmation and marriage to the very controversial choice of abortion. Since I’ve been Catholic all of my life, I am a firm believer in the pro-life choice, which is advocating full legal protection of embryos and fetuses along with high opposition to the legalization of induced abortions. A baby is a baby is a baby. Whether it is an embryo, fetus, or almost a full term baby, it is still considered life. That is how I like to view this topic. This semester I plan to research why abortion is morally wrong

The topic of abortion is one of the most controversial and sensitive for the society and myself. The debates and confrontations between two opposite groups of opinion are long and sometimes even brutal. Both sides have strong supporting arguments: pro-lifers base on moral principals, which is life before birth, while pro-choicers defend political and social rights, such as right to privacy and right of choice. Neither side can be absolutely right or wrong; basically it is a matter of personal opinion. Mine is that although the abortion is originally wrong, in many cases it must be a legal option.

Thou shalt not kill; one-tenth of what may arguably be the most famous guidelines of morality in the western culture, and also the main driving force for pro-life advocates. The argument supporting their beliefs typically starts with the premises that a fetus is a person, and to destroy or to kill a person is unethical. Therefore abortion, the premeditated destruction of a human being, is murder, and consequently unethical. I deny the fact that the fetus, what I will refer to as an embryo up to 22 weeks old, has the right to live. The opposing argument is invalid because a fetus, although perhaps a part of human species, is not formally a person. This leaves it simply to be a part of the woman?s body, whose fate lies solely in the

Roman Catholics believe that if only god has the right to take life, this means that abortion is sinful and should not be

Abortion can be a very controversial topic and since it’s my view on this topic it’s pretty much what my religion sees it and how the world could see it. I’m Catholic so I see totally against abortion and pray to stop it, because its losing someone’s life and it’s not the babies’ decision to decide to live or die. It’s a life that could be taken away for no reason. Image if that baby was one that could be a life changer to the world and make the world a better place. I say that it should stop and be a federal law that stated that this nonsense stop, because it’s not right. Abortion is losing a life, therefor can in be under another law as cruel and usual punishment. It’s hard to decide since time has changed and laws where changed. It ties to a point where political science and religion meet. if whatever decision is chosen by the federal many

Abortion is one of the most debated issues in society today. For now avoid the question of legality and ask the moral question. Is it moral to end the life of a human fetus? Does the fetus have any rights and any value? Science tells us that you have human life at the moment of conception. Keith L. Moore and T.V.N. Persaud write “A zygote is the beginning of a new human being.” A human being begins at fertilization, the process by which a male sperm and the female egg combine to form a single cell called a zygote. Pro-choice advocates say that a fetus has no rights because it is not a person. If this is the case that doesn’t mean a fetus has no value or rights. Dogs, giraffes, lions, even chickens are all living beings, not people, yet they have rights and value. A living being doesn’t have to be a human in order to have value and rights.

Due to many reasons and evidence from the catholic documentary such as verses from the bible, Pope’s and bishop’s quotations and also abortion is breaking the one of the important ten commandment therefore catholic church is strongly against abortion.

Abortion is one of the most frequently discussed ethical issues inside the catholic faith. The morals given by the Church clearly prohibit all uses of contraception to halt a pregnancy. The major ethic which the church teaches is that the process of delivering a child on this planet involves the creative action of God, therefore it is sacred from the

Abortion is always argued with different cases and play a main role in medical ethics (blackwell.,p291).It is evidently reasonable for some to argue that in moral situation, abortion is a murder and it should be illegal, while others may claim that abortion is woman’s right when concerning on autonomy ( The abortion debate in Australia). Opponents of making abortion legal claim that abortion is a kind of murder on extend of moral situation. It is always regarded as a sin to kill a person who is no aggressor in most moral communities (new ethics 1). Fetus is a biologically human as it is not just a part of the mothers, such as a lung or a kidney. On the contrary, it is obvious that fetus is human due to he or she has genetic code of human and human parents as well (abortion myth p5). Moreover, it has potentiality to be a person with primary moral worth (text book p210-211). As Gillion (new ethics) pointed out, every person has his right to life, especially he is not an aggressor. This point is also been pointed by (Rebecca and john,Blackwell p204), “embryos has a right to life” .The fetus is innocent and

The Roman Catholic Church has consistently condemned abortion — the direct and purposeful taking of the life of the unborn child. In principle, Catholic Christians believe that all life is sacred from conception until natural death, and the taking of innocent human life, whether born or unborn, is morally wrong. The Church teaches, "Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains for ever in a special relationship with the Creator, who is its sole end. God alone is the Lord of life from its beginning until its end: no one can under any circumstance claim for himself the right directly to destroy an innocent human being" ("Donum vitae," 5).

Abortion is an abomination and a serious confliction in civilization today. This heated topic is one inflicted upon by many different thought processes, morals, and religions, making it extremely controversial, but most do not realize one’s life is truly at stake. Abortion signifies revoking someone the opportunity of life, for the sole reason that things are not in our favor (Ladock). Ladock states the most important factor of abortion: human life is involved and killing it would be a crime. The innocent child in the womb is called innocent for a reason, and taking away the life of someone without their permission is cruelty and unjust. Just because a parent may not be prepared to have the child, does not mean they should be

So from this we can safely say that Catholics view, and have always viewed, abortion as evil. Then again, we are relying on something uncertain -- how you determine the humanity of a being. Clearly Catholics do not view a fetus as a human being.

Contrary to this, Deontologists who would explore what our moral duty is. They would state that the unborn infant is inevitably permitted to the same rights and moral considerations that any human being is already authorized to. Which means, that it has at first glance the right to life, and violating that right is going to demand a great reason that in shows in this situation the Fetus’ right to life (Metapop, 2013). The third ethical framework of the Catholic Church is Natural Law; which explores the virtue and/or moral character of the person based on reason, along with revelation carrying out an action, rather than at ethical duties and rules, or the consequences of particular actions. Natural Law in Catholicism refers to human nature, and what it means to be a human being, which Catholics believe is conceiving child through love, not science (shc.edu, 1995). Thomas Aquinas, the creator of Natural Law, calls it “right reason” when one will make judgments which are consistent with one’s human nature, encouraging human prosperity the natural way- “to do good, and avoid evil.” (shc.edu, 1955). These ethical frameworks apply and relate to the topic of abortion, as people are often unclear on whether or not the process of abortion is moral or immorally wrong. For the most part Catholicism believes abortion to be wrong, based on the framework of non-consequentialism/deontology

Those who oppose abortion on the other hand, believe in the equality of human being, and argue that the unborn baby has a right to life (McCoyd 136). The basis for the opponents of abortion is “life begins at conception and that abortion is tantamount to murder since the fetus is a person with the same legal and moral rights as a “living” person” (Medoff 159). The opponents of abortion believe that life is sacred, and no one has the authority to eliminate it, and the Roman Catholic Church strongly supports this position by calling “the development of craniotomy and removal of the fetus from women as disabling and fatal condition for women” (McCoyd 136). Similarly, to further support this position, at the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo, Egypt, delegates from the Vatican demanded that all references to unsafe abortions be